Readit Newscrispyporkbites commented on Bird Is Laying Off 23% of Its Staff dot.la/bird-scooters-layo... · Posted by u/thm
They're great when people are on them, not so great when they are strewn across pavements or knocked over at cycle stands.
Why apply that standard to scooters and not to cars? Parked cars are strewn all across the road, taking up much more space. Some sit in the same place for weeks.
The road outside my house is about 3x car widths across, there are private cars parked on either side (2/3rds of the total road space) for the full length of the road. Only one car can fit down the road at once, and pedestrians have limited pavement.
Why get so upset about a few scooters on the pavement, when there are cars literally everywhere in the way
crispyporkbites commented on Bird Is Laying Off 23% of Its Staff dot.la/bird-scooters-layo... · Posted by u/thm
They should be banned from city centres. I'm so glad I at least live somewhere that limits them to fairly low speeds and bans people from dumping them on the public street taking up space.
Agree. Cars are a menace to society
crispyporkbites commented on U.K. regulators order Meta to sell Giphy axios.com/uk-regulators-o... · Posted by u/jeremylevy
Doesn't Giphy also have rights-agreements with major movie studios - thus allowing their users to exchange clips of copyrighted content without fear of litigation (something about Giphy persuading litigious studios that allowing clips is basically free marketing)?
Don't know what Giphy has, but creating and sharing a gif from a movie would be fair use and not subject to copyright.
You're not going to watch a movie in gif format, and it would be a derivative anyway.
It took me a long time to find it, but this is "the" search engine for PeerTube:
This could be a reasonable entry point for a non-technical user who just wants to watch videos. If you layer in recommendations system, trending etc. and have a default "Instance" for users to join, Peertube could start to compete with the user experience of YouTube
crispyporkbites commented on Tracking Crucial Metrics of Earth's Global Warming climatechangetracker.org/... · Posted by u/a2x
+6 degrees above the 30 year average in the north pole this year
I knew it was up but that is a LOT
NFTs are obviously a bit silly, BUT, it would be nice if things bought on platforms like Steam, Roblox, Amazon, iTunes etc. were transferable to other games/platforms.
The platform providers would still need to agree that a specific blockchain / NFT is actually the source of truth, and so it's not really trustless. But the internet itself isn't perfectly decentralized either. I could see a future where developers could enable web3 support in their games/apps and allow importing assets, identities etc. between platforms, which would be nice.
Tailwind is popping up everywhere these days. I’m sold on it, but it seems a large number of people really don’t like it…
crispyporkbites commented on Johnny Knoxville’s Last Rodeo gq.com/story/johnny-knoxv... · Posted by u/spunker540
Johnny Knoxville was 29 when Jackass 1 came out- wow!
My impression is that by now, both sides have heavily bombed some areas.
[1] That word depends on which newspaper you read.
So if the regions remain under Russian control, the fighting will continue. Given Russia couldn’t conquer Ukraine first time round, it seems unlikely that they will be able to support a sustained campaign against a country that isn’t going to give up, until it’s over. Most likely outcome is that Russia attempts to hold the invaded territory for a period of years and eventually leaves when it becomes untenable for Russian leadership